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students at Berkeley, Davis and Sonoma State, saying: “they can shoot.”

Stop the Burning

Tom Gogola used great fortitude in maintaining objectivity in describing the tight-rope straddled by Republican Fred Schein in a substantial article “Log Cabin Fervor” (May 29, 2019) Schein admits, “it is lonely being a Gay Republican.” Curiosity held my attention as I try to understand the seeming contradiction. Schein touched on Republican support for small business and boasts of Young Republicans; college

I read with a nondiscrimination effort the difference between Democrats and Republicans while I process the current strangeness of our country. I appreciate that we should all be treated equal and Schein’s effort is heartfelt, but I cannot cross the party chasm.

Woody Hastings said it so well in his Open Mic (“Pass on New Gas Stations,” May 29, 2019): approving "any new fossil energy-based facilities or infrastructure in Sonoma County” should be an exception, because of commitments the county has made to respond to the climate crisis. It’s time to be done burning fossil fuel.

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point. In Congress, HR 763, with 41 co-sponsors and counting, will put a fee on carbon. Just like with cigarettes, we need to charge more for what we don’t want people to buy. The bill pays the fees back as dividends to American households to help us jump-start our own energy-wise investments. We need to stop burning carbon every which way!

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Try a Little Tenderness I read in the SF Chronicle the Trump Administration plans to allow medical staff in the nation to deny treatment to lesbians, gays, bisexual or transgender patients because of religious or moral beliefs held by the health care workers; thus allowing doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, emergency medical technicians, even receptionists to deny care. I thought of my late wonderful lesbian cousin, Denise, who lived in a rural county whose only hospital was religious based, and I wonder if they would have helped her with her ovarian cancer.

So, I turned immediately to Stevie Wonder vinyl and his 1976 ‘Songs in the Key of Life’, put on side one, cut one and listened:

“Love’s in need of love today Don’t delay Send yours in right away Hate’s goin’ round Breaking many hearts Stop it please Before it’s gone too far” That’s only the first few bars in this remarkable song and album. One wonders how cruel Trump and his staff are willing to go

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It’s a Grand Old Flag That’s why I’ll Fly the Start and Stripes it Upside-Down on June 14 BY BOB CANNING

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une 14th, Flag Day, is just around the corner, a day that commemorates the adoption by resolution of the Second Continental Congress, on June 14, 1777, of the official flag of the United States. But unlike July 4th and other national holidays, very few Americans fly the flag on that day, which is a shame.

But since 2017, and unlike our other national holidays, my flag will once again fly upside-down. Why? Because perversely, June 14th is the birthday of President Donald J. Bonespurs.

As a patriotic American who proudly served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War (1965-1968), I’m fully cognizant of the Flag Code, and the meaning of the union flown upside-down. It is a signal that our country is in dire distress. And God knows, it is! When I was the company clerk at Fort Tappan, NY., I had occasion to hoist and lower the flag a number of times, so I know proper flag etiquette and have always honored it without question.

Still, you may think I’m disrespecting our flag. Let me quote from an article that appeared in the Seattle Times on March 3, 2017, written by another patriotic American.

“Disrespectful? Who could be more disrespectful than President Donald Trump?” asked Vincent G. Barnes. “He has disrespected an entire religion, women, immigrants, a neighboring country, our allies, civil servants, the intelligence community and the free press. He has disrespected the intelligence and the basic goodness of Americans by repeatedly lying right into the camera. By appointing completely unqualified people to head them, he has disrespected the hard work of government agencies to make this a stronger, safer country.”

Not mentioned was the Draft Dodger-in-Chief’s mindless, heartless disrespect of war hero Sen. John McCain and the Gold Star family, Khizr and Gazala Khan, whose son was killed in Iraq fighting for his country.

So, I join Mr. Barnes and those right here in Sonoma County who fly their flags upside-down on June 14th. For me, at least, this practice will continue through 2020, when the cesspool in Washington is hopefully drained by a new, qualified and respectful president who will make America sane again.

Bob Canning lives in Petaluma. We welcome your contribution. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for publication, write openmic@ bohemian.com.

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FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Despite opposition from local restaurants, city of Sonoma says yes to raising the local minimum wage

Minimum Rage

Fight For $15 moves to Petaluma and Santa Rosa after bruising battle in the City of Sonoma TOM GOGOLA

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fter prevailing in the city of Sonoma, a local effort to jump start the state’s 2023 $15 minimum wage mandate now moves to Petaluma and Santa Rosa, says local wage-equity activist Marty Bennett.

Last week the Sonoma City Council unanimously passed a local minimum wage ordinance that will see the city’s minimum

wage rise to $16 an hour by 2023.

The effort was driven by the local umbrella-advocacy organization North Bay Jobs for Justice and opposed by a number of restaurants in Sonoma.

The labor push was designed to get a jump on the state’s new minimum wage law which, by 2023, will see California’s floor wage rise by stages to $15 an hour for companies that employ 25 people. Companies that employ more than 25 will be onboard with

the $15 wage by 2022. The current minimum wage in the state is $11 an hour; that will rise by a dollar a year until 2023.

The California law that prompted the wage hike was opposed by a cross-section of industries in the state, including the state’s restaurant lobby. The wage hike, when fully implemented, will raise restaurants’ operating expenses by between 2 and 3 percent, according to industry analyses

of its impact. In the restaurant business, that means customers could see higher menu prices to offset the impact.

The regional restaurant industry has also highlighted the economic fallout from 2017’s catastrophic wildfires that struck the North Bay—and that an accelerated minimum wage rollout is the last thing they need right now as the region rebounds from the $14 billion in damage wrought by the fires. Conversely, Bennett highlights the benefits to restaurants insofar as higher wages mean a higher rate of employee retention.

Under California labor law, when there’s a conflict between the federal, state and local minimum wage, “the employer must follow the stricter standard; that is, the one that is most beneficial to the employee.”

The national “Fight for $15” was the backdrop that led to the 2017 effort in California to increase the state minimum wage, as the state push then became “$15 by 20.”

Bennett says the campaign to encourage localities to get a jump on the 2023 mandate is driven almost entirely by the cost of housing in the region. According to online data, the median cost of a home in Sonoma County is $614,900 compared to a statewide average of $548,000 and a national average of $219,000.

In Sonoma County, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment, according to data assembled by bestplaces.net, is $1,447, about $100 more than the state average and $500 more than the national average. The situation for families is even more challenging: a four-bedroom home rental in Sonoma averages $3,300 a month compared to $2,755 for the state as a whole and $1,800 nationally.

In opposition to Sonoma’s action on raising the minimum wage, a consortium of restaurants brought in the legal firepower of the Littler Mendelson Workplace Policy Institute, which has positioned itself as a foil to much of the pro-$15 studies and analyses that have been undertaken since the state raised the minimum wage.

the bad-for-business arguments advanced by Sonoma’s local restaurants.

Now he says the local effort to get a jump on 2023’s statemandated $15 an hour wage moves to Petaluma and then to Santa Rosa. Bennett’s cautiously optimistic, he says, that restaurants and businesses in Petaluma will be more amenable to accelerate the minimum wage hike, even if at least one of the signatories to the Sonoma letter (Mary’s Pizza Shack) has an outpost in Petaluma.

Bennett says small businesses have told him they support the $15 minimum wage by 2023, and in a report on Jobs with Justice’s efforts, the head of Petaluma’s Chamber of Commerce, Onita Pellegrini, told the North Bay Business Journal in February that “We are all very much aware that the minimum wage is not anywhere near to a living wage.” Whether or how that sentiment translates into onthe-ground ordinances remains to be seen, though Bennett says that, at the very least and unlike the experience in Sonoma, the Petaluma business community has so far been neutral on the accelerated plan to get to $15 before 2023.

Bennett’s been reading the tea leaves in Santa Rosa and is cautiously optimistic that the city’s at least taking up the issue in a public workshop scheduled for this summer.

City officials in Santa Rosa like councilman Tom Sawyer have expressed concern over the potential impact a minimum wage increase could have on downtown Santa Rosa’s bustling restaurantand-retail scene—especially in the aftermath of wildfires.

But it’s not just restaurant workers who would benefit from an enhanced minimum wage.

According to numbers assembled by the Massachusets Institute of Technology’s “Living Wage Calculator,” California workers in the food preparation and service industry earn an average of $25,234. Workers in the region’s farming, fishing and forestry industry make about $1,000 less a year on average.

D EBR IEFER Lynda Lays it Down Lynda Hopkins is on a roll when it comes to pushing back against powerful liquid emanations in Sonoma County. The 5th District Sonoma County Supervisor has taken on two seemingly intransigent West County forces in recent days and weeks, and emerged victorious: In early June, she led the legislative charge as Sonoma County banned the use of the pesticide glyphosate within county government operations. That effort was largely targeted at the product Roundup and other liquid pesticides linked to negative health impacts.

President Barack Obama moved to ban Roundup but his successor, Donald Trump, ended that effort claiming more studies were needed.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged in the meantime to enact a statewide ban on Roundup. For now, it’s a local issue as Sonoma County joins the cities of Santa Rosa, Windsor and Sonoma in the ban. Marin County has already enacted a similar ban.

Then, late last week, Hopkins penned a hilarious and biting letter directed at Bohemian Grove members that highlighted the peculiarities of the all-men’s annual gathering of plutocrats and marveled at the organization’s court-blessed ritual of al fresco urination. This year’s Bohemian Grove is July 10-28.

The gist of Hopkins’ letter highlighted the men-only posture of the Bohemian Grove and seemed somewhat fixated on the issue of one-percenters free-whizzing in the redwoods. Hopkins admits as much to the fixation in her letter.

The serious issue at hand, besides the organization’s banning of women, is that the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office has historically provided security through a $151,000 contract that’s up for renewal this week, and that’s designed to “ensure the safety of Sonoma County citizens and visitors of the Russian River vicinity,” according to the supervisors’ June 11 agenda.

Last week she and fellow supervisor Shirlee Zane moved to end that practice by saying they’d oppose a renewal of the contract between SCSO and the Bohemian Grove when it came before the board, given that the SCSO was enforcing rules that are flat-out gender discriminatory, she says.

“Hi,” begins Hopkins. “I’m the local elected official who represents West County, which includes the 2,700 acres’ worth of Bohemian Grove that you come to play in. I’ve never set foot on your property. I know you’ve hung out with all of my 5th District Supervisor predecessors at the Grove—but unlike them, I’m a woman. So I can’t come to your camp, which makes this a little awkward. . . .”

It only gets better from there.

“Stop trying to convince me that the Grove is totally normal,” she writes.

“It’s not. It’s weird. But here’s the thing—I don’t have a problem with weird. So just be honest with me and admit that it’s weird. Try, ‘hey, I like to hang out with a bunch of powerful dudes in the redwoods and pee on trees and listen to music and hear famous men speak and burn effigies in weird little tent cities.’ Because that sounds like West County Burning Man, and I can understand the appeal.”

There’s more.

“I know, I know . . . by discussing issues of equality, I’m veering dangerously close to sounding like an “angry woman” in this letter. But I’m not anti-man. I respect your right to assemble. I don’t care if you enjoy weird things; quite frankly I don’t give a damn if you enjoy getting drunk and peeing on trees with other dudes. (I know I keep bringing up the peeing, but I do so because it’s one of the only Grove behaviors publicly confirmed in court record.

The right to urinate freely out of sight of females was a hotly litigated part of the 1981 court case, and was presented as justification by the Grove not to hire female employees.

So I can only conclude that peeing freely is important to you, and a critical reason for not including women.)”—Tom Gogola

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A June 3 letter from the law firm and a group of restaurants filed with the Sonoma City Council on the eve of the voted stressed that while the restaurants supported the council’s efforts to increase the financial well-being and security of its residents and those working in the city, they opposed the local ordinance.

The restaurants—which included the Girl and Fig, Mary’s Pizza Shack and HopMonk Tavern Holdings—argued that they shouldn’t pay front-of-thehouse employees the proposed minimum wage because they were already making more than the minimum wage when their tips were included in the tally of their hourly wage. The argued in favor of a continued “two-tier” wage structure and said that since the state minimum wage doesn’t apply to all employees, nor should a local minimum wage.

The restaurants noted for example that the “vast majority of California cities with minimum wage ordinances potentially may not cover unionized workers,” given that most localities in the state have laws that “allow unionized workers to waive all or part of an ordinance’s requirements via collective bargaining.”

The restaurants also argued that Sonoma could have limited the scope of the ordinance without sacrificing the council’s goal of ramping wages for its local workforce. California is one of seven states that prohibits employers from considering tips when determining whether an employee has earned at least the minimum wage, they note. “As a result, tipped employees in California are economically better off than their counterparts in most other parts of the country.”

The restaurants then encouraged the council to establish one minimum wage for so-called “back of the house” employees and another, lower minimum wage, for tipped employees. Citing state law, the council rejected the restaurants’ lawyers efforts to enact the tip credit.

The nine signatories to the June 3 letter did not prevail, and Bennett at Jobs for Justice is unsurprisingly not moved by

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STARTING OUT RIGHT Newcomer Layla offers hotel guests and locals a fresh take on Mediterranean cuisine, as

exemplified by the excellent charred octopus starter.

Local Standout

Layla transcends the hotel restaurant BY FLORA TSAPOVSKY

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ot to overgeneralize, but resort food tends to be plentiful, yet lacking in creativity, thoughtful sourcing of ingredients and memorable culinary moments,” says Cole Dickinson, executive chef of Layla, the latest addition to the recently refurbished MacArthur Place Hotel and Spa in Sonoma.

This is decidedly not the direction

Dickinson took after joining the hotel to oversee all culinary operations after stints at Healdsburg’s Dry Creek Kitchen, The Bazaar by Jose Andres in Los Angeles and Acacia House at the Las Alcobas Resort in Napa.

Occupying a spacious, rustic room at the property’s main building, Layla is the sit-down option among the hotel’s offerings, alongside a casual graband-go cafe and a lounge serving cocktails and bar food.

Layla, from the sand dune-like menu design to the wicker touches in the dining room, is a Mediterranean restaurant, which hasn’t been

common among Sonoma or Napa as far as hotel eateries go. Why not?

Dickinson isn’t sure.

“I tend to draw inspiration from my surroundings, cooking with seasonal ingredients grown locally,” he says. “Sonoma has a Mediterranean climate with hot, arid summers and wet winters, so we have a bounty of local agricultural produce—grapes, of course, as well as olives, fresh legumes and vegetables—that mirrors the best from the Mediterranean region.”

The menu at Layla isn’t afraid of summoning ingredients from

all corners of the region, from the mainstream to the more obscure. In the shared plates section, the octopus ($21), the roasted carrots ($10) and the baba ganoush ($9) deliver an enjoyable start, turning the tired “share everything” directive into something you’d actually want to do. The charred octopus slices come with a tangy romesco sauce and perfectly cooked confit potatoes. The carrots, sprinkled with slightly sweet pine nut granola, are memorable among the common sight of roasted carrots. The best dish out of the three is the unorthodox baba ganoush, made from zucchini instead of the traditional eggplant. Flavored with zaatar and dotted with walnuts, pureed black garlic and addictive pickled raisins, the spread packed enough freshness and nuance.

What came after didn’t disappoint either. The textures in the local greens salad ($12) kept things interesting with raw and pickled asparagus making an appearance. The Israeli couscous was another surprise; known in Israel as children’s comfort food and normally served with simple tomato sauce, the small, pearly pasta “grains” were instead cooked in shellfish broth and butter, and served with bites of lobster, making for a complex, very adult main course. Similar outside-of-the-box thinking was present at the chicken agrodolce ($29), an inventive and good-looking dish doing the trendy “both ways” trick; crisped chicken breast with toasted shallots on one side of the plate, a bold, delicious savoy cabbage roll stuffed with minced chicken on the other, with a rich egg yolk custard to cut through the sweet and sour notes.

The halibut ($32) kept it simpler, expertly cooked and resting on a bed of pickled peppers, chickpeas and tomato sauce liberally called “shakshuka” on the menu, despite the lack of eggs. A refreshing pate de bombe ($10); greek yogurt mousse, rhubarb and coconut sorbet, was just the light, barely sweet finish the meal needed.

Layla is an ambitious take on the something-for-everyone hotel restaurant. Standing out in the local landscape, Layla’s creative menu is worth the drive, from Sonoma’s downtown or beyond.

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CRISP AND CLEAN The citrus notes in Spirit Works’ gin makes it a great choice for a locally sourced Martini.

Local Mixers

A gin-soaked guide to mixing cocktails with North Bay ingredients BY JAMES KNIGHT

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he conversation around locally sourced food and beverage products is so much about organic microgreens, heritage pigs and that sort of wholesome, farmers market stuff. Nice, yeah, but how about the booze, the icy cocktails that are shaken, not stirred, and served up in that very international symbol of tippling, the martini glass?

To answer this pressing question, I narrowed the field of cocktails to five unfussy, mostly standard-issue drinks you’d order in any bar, anywhere, with

the stipulation that both booze and mixer—garnish, if possible—be North Bay-made, and presented samples in little plastic cocktail cups to a group of Bohemians.

Gin and Tonic This citrusy, balanced, not too sweet and very summery refresher was the hands-down favorite. The gin was the easy part—Spirit Works Distilling of Sebastopol makes one from organic winter wheat. It has a sweet nose, big on coriander, with a vanilla note and a silky mouthfeel—if you can believe I’m still talking about gin, here. Finding a local craft tonic alternative to the mass-market, high-fructose corn

syrup or artificially sweetened brands was the hard part. I asked Phaedra Achor, maker of Monarch Bitters in Petaluma, if she knew of any. “I make a delicious tonic syrup!” she replied.

Her product is a concentrated syrup made with organic cane sugar and organic lemon peel, plus herbs and bark. It’s customizable—just add carbonated water to your liking. I liked best a mix of one-half ounce syrup to 4 or 5 ounces soda water—a higher dose seems to suppress the bubbles.

The only local fail here is the lime—ask friends and neighbors if they’ve got a rare lime tree, or more likely, a Meyer lemon tree tucked away in the yard.

Runner up: Bummer & Lazarus

gin, a grape-based spirit from Raff Distillerie of San Francisco, is more forward with green herbs and crushed juniper leaf aromas, and lends a more medicinal character to the G&T. H.O.B.S. gin, from Healdsburg’s Young & Yonder Distillery, is also juniper forward, but the aroma here is a bit too “medical” for my taste, reminiscent of depressing well drinks from dive bar days gone bye-bye.

When I asked a bartender for a ready-to-go list of classic cocktail recipes, I was at first disappointed that he couldn’t offer advice unless he’d tasted all of the components to make sure the balance was correct. But when I started mixing, beginning from recipes cribbed from the International Bartenders Association (IBA) and Wikipedia, I not only understood, but also was more excited about the project. Mixing an all-local cocktail is more than just a feel-good subbing of a craft spirit for a corporate brand—it’s a whole new cocktail.

Just for kicks, I mix 3 ounces gin with 3 ounces club soda, and 1 ounce Monarch tonic syrup, and find it’s just hard to overdo it on that Spirit Works.

Martini Forget about where the martini was invented—Martinez or San Francisco—because we can reinvent the martini right here in the North Bay. Let’s start with 2 ounces Spirit Works gin, again, but where to find the vermouth, besides those bottom shelf brands that smell like stale wine breath? It’s rare—just 67 cases of Paul Hawley’s side project, Menagerie white vermouth ($22), were made from fortified Sonoma County Sauvignon Blanc and Viognier, but it smells just as pretty as you’d expect from those grapes, plus a whiff of fresh fennel.

Mixed at 2 ounces gin to onefourth ounce vermouth, this martini was clean and pretty, and it’s even nice at the old-school ratio of two to one. But it’s almost too pretty too dirty up with a splash of juice from McEvoy Ranch’s spiced olive blend. Vodka partisans will find Spirit Works’ vanilla-scented vodka makes the martini so pillowy and soft, a thin slice of Meyer lemon peel is the better garnish.

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Young & Yonder’s H.O.B.S. gets its turn to shine in the neon light. The Menagerie warms the aroma, but it retains that cool, alcohol edge, and can take an olive or two. Alas, the Raff had a bummer reaction to this particular vermouth.

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Manhattan Years ago, I liked Manhattans for about a week before I tired of the sickly-sweet vermouth. Menagerie red vermouth ($22), made from Sonoma County Zinfandel, is wholesomely delicious with real red cherry-like fruit, scented with fennel, and is not at all sweet. The Bohemian Manhattan is a fairly dry and adult beverage matching 1 part vermouth to 2 parts Sonoma Distilling Sonoma rye. Monarch provides the bitters.

The “dash” of bitters called for in the recipes was too subtle, however, so I consulted Achor—she likes to add at least 5–10 drops, and that was about right for her aromatic bitters, which round out the palate like an oak addition in wine. This is very dry with less vermouth—Sonoma rye stands up to a 2 to 1 mix, with Monarch’s cherryvanilla bitters adding a tease of a sweet topnote. It’s cherry season, so go find a fresh one for garnish instead of the grotesquely colored candied kind.

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North Bay Fermented Foods Take it in the Gut BY JAMES KNIGHT

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never thought I’d be the kind of person who eats sauerkraut straight out of the jar. Post apocalypse, maybe. But outside of that scenario, who eats sauerkraut that way?

Sure, I welcome a little pickled cabbage into my life, now and then. Who doesn’t?

But last year an astonishing encounter with a popup deli— Great Scott, the chef is grilling the sauerkraut before grilling the Reuben!—inspired a trip to the

store for some “authentic” German sauerkraut, to try grilling my own. And I’ve got say, alongside a kielbasa-style veggie sausage and mashed potatoes, it does seem like the right kind of condiment.

But I was surprised when I began to see locally made sauerkraut

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and Point Reyes Station and now Whole Foods.

Ehreth says his was one of the first serious brineries on the scene, predating Santa Rosa’s Wildbrine and Farmhouse Culture of Santa Cruz.

“We were the first guy to show up with a live cultured, fermented pickle,” says Ehreth. “And in our other hand, a live cultured sauerkraut.”

They’re all competitors of sorts, but each specializes in different products. Ehreth explains that at first he aimed for a niche that didn’t compete with existing products in the stores he was pitching.

“I’m here to make your pickle sales increase,” he’d say, “not simply replace an existing product.”

Existing products include pickles and other vegetables are processed using either vinegar or heat-treated after fermentation.

So what is fermentation, if it’s not the kind that produces alcohol, like wine or beer?

“If I can go nerd on you for a moment,” Ehreth warns, before diving into a synopsis about the lactobacillus bacteria that exist on the surface of all fresh

vegetables. “You can’t remove them by washing.” What’s more, they immediately begin to feed and reproduce—but not in a bad way, unless they’re a bad actor, he insists “Those bacteria will really stake out their turf,” says Ehreth.

“They’re very territorial. They go to war with each other.” The incredible part of it is that the four horsemen of the food industry— listeria, E. Coli, botulinum, and salmonella—are on lactobacilli’s hit list. None survive. Five bacteria enter—one bacterium leaves.

Quoting the Food and Drug Administration, Ehreth states, “There has been no documented transmission of pathogens by fermented vegetables.”

The problem with my pink batch of pickled peppers, Ehreth suggests, may have been wild yeast getting a toehold—red is a sign of yeast.

“When you buy Sonoma Brinery,” he says, “you are buying a level of expertise.”

Pickles don’t have to be translucent and soggy, like some home-fermented pickles I’ve

graciously accepted but never finished eating, or store-bought pickles that are pickled in vinegar.

“You need surplus to make vinegar,” Ehreth explains, recounting the demise of fresh pickling. Before World War II, vinegar was made from comparatively precious products like wine and apple cider. After the war, there was an abundance of nitrogen fertilizer on hand.

Armed with this, farmers created a surplus of corn and grains, and one of the things you can do with grain is make cheap, distilled white vinegar. Producers said, “Look at this, we don’t have to ferment.”

Vinegar works very fast— fermentation at Sonoma Brinery takes 8–15 days.

The other difference is that almost all jalapeño products are heat processed, says Ehreth, and there’s no way you can heat treat and not adversely affect the texture of a jalapeño.

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featured prominently in the fresh deli case at the supermarket. That all changed one day at the California Artisan Cheese Festival, where local purveyors not purveying cheese included products from Sonoma Brinery. Specifically, they offered a taste of their latest product, escabeche, and I took a bite.

That crunch, in my mind, echoed throughout Grace Pavilion. Then, I tried the new dill pickle spears. I became woke to the brine.

Escabeche, as it’s experienced hereabouts, is a mix of pickled carrots, onions and jalapeños, and is commonly served in Mexican restaurants and found in the canned food aisles of grocery stores. I like pickled jalapeños, and even serranos when I feel like bringing on the heat, but this was something different. What was it that made it more…alive?

After tracking down a carton of Sonoma Brinery’s escabeche in Oliver’s Market—I’m just noting this because it’s hard to find elsewhere—I confirmed that I love the taste, but I disagreed with the thin-sliced style. I’d prefer quartered spears of jalapeño, like the pickles. Could I make my own? Consulting the oracle of the internet, the answer was, “Yes.” Pickling peppers the natural way, by fermentation, is said to be as easy as adding salty water, and waiting a few days. Could it really be that easy? My first batch turned out crunchy and tasty. My second batch, with radishes added, turned bright pink. Was it the radishes, or had something gone awry?

You can’t believe everything you read on the internet, so I made an appointment with David Ehreth, president and managing partner at Sonoma Brinery, to get the scoop. Ehreth started the company in his garage in 2004 as sort of a retirement project after a career as a telecom executive in Petaluma’s “Telecom Valley,” a phrase he says he helped coin. Today, he doesn’t look much retired—he’s in the middle of a meeting with his sales manager, plus half a dozen other things, in a good sized commercial building in Healdsburg.

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style sauerkraut, and had some jalapeños around, so production manager Mayra Madrigal tried a batch of escabeche.

“It was so good it made my head explode,” says Ehreth.

Sonoma Brinery sources conventionally farmed pickling cucumbers, according to Ehreth, because the organic kind are unicorns—the nation’s largest pickle buyer buys conventional pickles for its burgers, so there isn’t much incentive for growers to go organic until so goes Mickey D’s.

In his spartan kitchen and office, Rick Goldberg of Wildbrine is finishing up a test project, scooping batter from a mixing bowl. On one counter, an earthenware crock is burping slowly with another new project. But while Goldberg’s office, which he shares with business partner Chris Glab, has the feel of a startup, it’s one of the nation’s largest fermented food startups to date.

Outside, employees whiz by, riding on electric pallet jacks, moving half-ton bins of plasticwrapped product on shipping pallets to and fro. It’s a much larger operation than Sonoma Brinery, although the building is shared with HenHouse Brewing and another company.

This isn’t Goldberg’s first food venture.

“I was retired,” says Goldberg.

“I wasn’t looking to go back to work.”

Previously, he and Glab turned a bagel-and-cream cheese wholesale business to food trucks into a multi-million dollar cheese spread and salsa business (remember Sonoma Salsa?), selling it to a larger company in 2006, which later was absorbed by yet another company.

Goldberg volunteered at the Ceres Community Project in Sebastopol, which brings wholesome meals to people facing serious illnesses, with the help of high school students. There, he learned about the health benefits of probiotic, fermented foods, and began packaging fermented foods as a “one or two day a week thing,” to sell in a few local stores. It’d be a little project for his retirement, and make a few bucks for Ceres.

Eight years later, Wildbrine is hand-chopping and machinechopping through some 5 million pounds of organic cabbage a year, distributing it throughout the U.S., Canada and Japan, and, according to Goldberg, it is the biggest selling brand in its category according to market data that doesn’t include Whole Foods—although they certainly have a big presence there.

carrots to make “24 Carrot Gold,” a carrot-heavy sauerkraut. Wild West is a decidedly more smallscale outfit than the others, but they’ve got their niche—and this is the first brinery visit where I can smell some real brine, from my first step through the door.

Regalbuto shows me to the fermentation room, which must have formerly been the dining room—the faux-textured paint job does lend the scene an Old World feel, and it’s filled with brown, earthenware crocks imported from Germany. Is that a burp I just heard? Yes, Regalbuto says, the fermentations are burping away through a seal of water on the jar lids. They’re a pain to maintain, he says, but it’s worth it.

“Now, the others won’t like me talking about this,” says Regalbuto, before explaining that he feels that plastic may not be the ideal medium in which to ferment raw foods. But to each his own.

Selling at farmers markets in San Rafael and Point Reyes Station, Wild West just recently got back into the new regime at Whole Foods, requiring a big jump in production from this small business, which ferments for six weeks—a bit longer than the others.

Waving his hand like a stadium fan, Regalbuto describes the arc of flavors and competing microbes that rise, then fall, in epochs during fermentation—it’s kind of like naturally fermented wine.

Each of these brineries have their own repertoire, whether heavy on the radish, like Wild West, or spicy with the kimchi, like Wildrine. The signature sauerkraut is the telling one—Wild West’s is more finely chopped, herbal and floral than others, highlighting coriander spice, while Wildbrine’s is coarse and juicy, with a garlicky aftertaste.

Maybe it’s all about the different recipes, and the sourcing of produce. But also, likeGoldberg told me toward the end of my visit at Wildbrine, “It’s really a piece of magic, it’s not just science.”

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“When I grew up, we were always out playing in the dirt,” Goldberg says, musing about the bugs in our biota. “We had our hands dirty, and then we’d grab a sandwich. I think we oversanitized our gut, and realized we had made a mistake.”

That being said, Wildbrine follows an exacting protocol of sanitation for employees and visitors: I must don a beard net, hair net, plus booties for my shoes, and a smock in order to tour kraut factory.

At 10:30am, there’s already a full sheet of batches logged and tested. They’ll pack 35,000 pounds of kimchi today, all of it weighed by hand and adjusted by employees with contents from a half-ton bin filled with something that looks like spilled pizza.

It’s amazing that this spicy mix contains no tomatoes.

Wildbrine’s newest products use surplus cabbage leaves from their kimchi and sauerkraut process, but the culture is fermented with cashew nuts to make a simulacrum of Brie cheese and butter. The result is darker than brie, with a texture akin to halvah, but the bloomy rind is spot-on in aroma. The butter is kind of in between hummus and foie gras—it would go well on a bagel.

Wild West Ferments also has its origins in health concerns. Around the time that co-founders Maggie Levinger and Luke Regalbuto met while attending Humboldt State University, Levinger’s mother was diagnosed with colon cancer, spurring their interest in intestinal health and probiotic foods.

After college, the couple traveled in Eastern Europe and Latin America, experiencing fermented foods like smreka in Bosnia and kisli kupis in Romania, while working in organic farms through the WOOF program. They began fermenting foods in the kitchen of an Inverness restaurant, and sold their products at farmers markets. Four years ago, they took it up a notch.

Behind a shuttered storefront in Petaluma, formerly a French restaurant, Regalbuto and three workers are grating cabbage and

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Fans of the San Francisco Giants or baseball in general know the name Marty Lurie, one of the most recognizable voices on KNBR 680 sports radio station. Lurie is often heard before the Giants’ games on the radio and he’s beloved for both his photographic memory of the sport and a gift of gab. This week, Lurie is in Napa Valley for an event, “Let’s Talk Baseball,” in which he joins San Francisco Giants’ longtime third-base coach Ron Wotus for a fireside chat over a glass (or two) of wine. Get in on the conversation Thursday, June 13, Priest Ranch Tasting Room, 6490 Washington St., Yountville. 5:30pm. Free, RSVP recommended. 707.944.8200.

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Sonoma County-grown singer-songwriter David Luning has his hands full this summer. In two weeks, he joins the legendary John Hiatt on tour for seven dates of solo acoustic performances, in which he’ll perform his new single “In Hell I Am,” which just received featured placement in the Netflix hit series, Lucifer. Before embarking on the tour with Hiatt, Luning and his full band headline a night of music with special guest Jade Jackson, a rising Americana star in her own right, on Friday, June 14, at Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd. N, Petaluma.

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Adventurer, artist and author Obi Kaufmann is known for his immersive and compelling California Field Atlas, a book that showcases the interconnected nature of our ecosystems in a vibrant manner. Now, Kaufmann focuses his attention on California’s most complex resource in the new book, The State of Water. Using illustrations, maps and other visual cues, the book demonstrates the need for conservation and restoration efforts in our water systems, and Kaufmann explains the ins-and-outs of water when he reads from the book on Friday, June 14, at Copperfield’s Books, 138 Main St., Sebastopol. 7pm. Free. 707.823.2618.

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Sonoma Mystery North Bay native makes strong film debut in ‘Donovan Reid’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ute, hooded and clutching an intricate wooden puzzle, a young man (Weston Lee Ball) walks out of a lightly raining night into a police station lobby. Asking for a pen and a piece of paper, he writes the sentence, “My name is Donovan Reid.”

Co-writer, co-producer and director Austin Smagalski, raised in Sonoma County and now living in

Los Angeles, shot Donovan Reid in Dillon Beach and Petaluma.

“I knew going into this project that we were going to have limited resources, so while I was writing I had very specific locations in mind that I had been to before while I was growing up in Sonoma County,” says Smagalski.

This good-looking, low-budget tantalizer goes straight into the mystery of a 10-year old boy’s vanishing and reappearance as a man a decade later. Yet after he’s grilled a bit by the police, we have

evidence enough that this supposed Donovan Reid is lying.

On the one hand, this mystery mirrors real-life situations, as in the recent case of an imposter in Ohio who pretended to be the vanished Timmothy Pitzen. On the other hand, Donovan Reid avoids the quick resolution of that midwestern masquerade—a fast DNA test revealed the claimant to not be Pitzen. It takes a bit of work to avoid giving this young man a similar test to solve the riddle; it’s like the lengths Hitchcock took to

keep his characters from going to the police.

The cast is poised enough to suspend disbelief and they almost all look like they’re on their way up.

In particular is Ball, a slight, haunted type, and the appealing Jazmine Pierce, as Harper, who knew Donovan as a boy and who wrote a book about the tragedy. Pierce’s Harper is cozy and guileless; any reporter who looked that open-faced would have a smooth career.

Anthony Martinez, as Donovan’s father Hank, is loving, fallible and a little too trusting. If there’s nothing as dire as a drunken dad, Martinez is more frightened of himself than maudlin in a scene where he’s bathing his nerves in bourbon. Lydia Revelos, as Donovan’s mother, is required to do the heaviest lifting in the picture, as she works through her suspicions. Cotati’s Mike Schaeffer stars as the shrewd police detective who has been on the case since the boy Donovan vanished, quietly authoritative as the sort of cop who gets fierce pleasure out of cornering a liar.

The best aspect of Smagalski’s well-built feature-length debut is the ambience.

“I wanted the two main locations to emphasize the tones of the story being told in those spaces,” says Smagalski.

Christine Adams’ photography of the Sonoma coast is gorgeously somber, setting a mood with lapping water and ribbons of fog, and Santa Rosa-based composer Jared Newman’s score provides an appropriate musical match for the story; electronic howls for the tensest moments, and moods similar to the ethereal minimalism of ‘70s Brian Eno. Donovan Reid is evidence not just of one career worth watching, but of several.

Charlie Swanson contributed to reporting on this article. ‘Donovan Reid’ is available on Amazon Prime. donovanreidmovie.com

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New Jam Left Edge Theatre tackles death and drumming in world premiere production

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elcome to the Neo-Heathen Male Bonding and Drumming Society’s annual camp out, where a dwindling group of aging death metal fans communes in the desert to ceremoniously beat their bongos, reveal their deepest fears and failures, pass around a really big stick and pay tribute to the Egyptian lord of death.

But unbeknownst to the membership, this year’s recruit—AKA “The New Bitch”—is actually Anubis, the lord of death himself.

Will anyone make it out alive? Let the mead flow and the rituals commence!

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Under the capable direction of David L. Yen, a well-matched ensemble scores with impeccable pacing and lively action. Chris Schloemp is hysterical and endearing as the tribe’s makeshift leader, “Chick,” chanting “Dethdog” songs around the campfire. Nick Sholley delivers a touching performance as arthritic Neil (“Professor”), earning laughs with his steadfast recitation of group regulations. Leather jacketclad Anthony Martinez brings the BROADWAY PERFORMERS ON THE MOST right amount of fragile masculinity to BEAUTIFUL STAGE IN WINE COUNTRY macho “Bull,” and Richard Pallaziol is the perfect fit for reformed alcoholic From shows such as Hamilton, Wicked, Les Misérables, “Stingray,” whose wide-eyed Hair, Mamma Mia, The Book of Mormon and many more. reactions and strange obsession with a cooler add much to the general amusement.

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haft is supposed to be about a black private dick, not a shtick about his privates. This catastrophic reboot insists that we won’t know NYC detective John Shaft is a bad m.f. unless he talks about his dick every six seconds.

Barbershop excepted, director Tim Story has never made anything like a good movie.

Here he’s re-rebooting a superdetective franchise of the 1970s starring the imposing Richard Roundtree, successfully redone by the late John Singleton in 2000 with Samuel L. Jackson in the lead. Detective movies take care of themselves; Jackson tooling around listening to sweet soul music in a big Chrysler is almost a movie on its own. Instead, this is a lot of awkward bonding: the old detective getting his son to nut up and be macho.

The imam of a sinister Harlem mosque may be responsible for the OD of a friend of Shaft’s estranged son. Son JJ (Jessie Usher) is a plaid-wearing Urkel, an FBI data analyst, the kind of Ivy Leaguer

who has a pair of crossed lacrosse sticks over his bed.

Story’s direction has the rhythms of bad TV, those shows that presume you’re distracted.

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by PowerPoint presentation, underscoring clues you couldn’t miss if you were three-quarters drunk and playing around with the dog on the couch. The easily solved mystery unfolds in textureless cityscapes.

Apart from JJ’s girlfriend Sasha (Alexandra Shipp) and mom (the great Regina Hall of Support the Girls) Shaft is a movie where the women are either strippers or club girls.

Jackson is entitled to every dollar he can get. The hardest working and best paid movie star alive withstands moments like his fatherly advice to JJ about how to deal with Sasha: “Tear that ass up.” He’ll survive. Whether this kind of banal sadism is the best use of his ever-dwindling time is another matter.

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STRING THEORY Sonoma violin

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ranz Schubert (1797– 1828) is considered a titan of the Romantic period of classical music.

While the Austrian composer died young, he left behind a vast opus, including more than 600 vocal works, seven complete symphonies, several operas and a large body of piano and chamber music.

During his lifetime, Schubert also established a new kind of musical gathering, called a schubertiade, in which he and his friends would convene at a private residence for daylong musical festivities that were informal and spontaneous.

Schubertiade happens Sunday, Jun 16, at Petaluma Museum, 20 Fourth St., Petaluma.1pm. $30-$40; students are $10; kids under 10 are free. schubert2019.brownpapertickets.com.

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Music, conversation and other merriment, as well as feasts of Viennese delicacies, were a common sight at these Schubertiades, and the tradition continued on after Schubert’s death.

In fact, schubertiades are still happening around the world today, celebrating the music of Schubert.

In Sonoma County, the Sky Hill Cultural Alliance is bringing the festivities to the Petaluma Historical Library & Museum for the North Bay’s first ever schubertiade on Sunday, Jun 16.

“Schubert wrote some of the most beautiful music in the world,” says Sky Hill Cultural Alliance founder and director Elizabeth Walter. “Music came out of him like a fountain, his friends would say. He didn’t ‘compose;’ music poured out of him.”

The afternoon affair will feature a dozen musicians and vocalists, including local violin prodigy Nigel Armstrong, filling the museum with the romantic-era music. Schubert’s beloved “Trout Quintet” will be the centerpiece of the show, but the event will showcase many other small masterpieces as well.

In the schubertiade tradition, complimentary wine and traditional Viennese savories and sweets will be served during breaks in the performances. Walter stresses that the relaxed event is designed so that people can come and go throughout the afternoon.

Sky Hill Cultural Alliance has made the museum its primary venue for concerts and events that aim to introduce classical music to local audiences, especially young people.

“There are scientific studies all over that show that listening to classical music at a young age helps the brain develop,” says Walter. “So many kids nowadays don’t get a chance to fall in love with classical music. We want to bring music to everybody, especially young people.”

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Cotati Music Festival Formerly the Cotati Jazz Festival, the daylong party mixes food, fun and local acts like the Big Fit, Gator Nation and others. Jun 15, 12pm. Free admission. La Plaza Park, Old Redwood Highway, Cotati, 707.795.5508.

Country Summer Biggest country music fest in the North Bay features headlining artists Jake Owen, Tim McGraw, Big & Rich and many others. Jun 14-16. $89 and up. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, countrysummer.com.

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Symphony Napa Valley Led by Maestro Michael Guttman and joined by guest cellist Jing Zhao, the symphony performs the most beloved music from Hollywood blockbusters. Jun 15, 3pm. $30-$65. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA A’Roma Roasters

Jun 14, Solid Air. Jun 15, Riner Scivally Trio. 95 Fifth St, Santa Rosa, 707.576.7765.

Aqus Cafe

Jun 13, These Fine Moments.

Jun 14, Riner Scivally Trio. Jun 15, Tangled Up in Blue Band.

Jun 16, 2pm, Gary Vogensen & the Ramble Band. 189 H St, Petaluma, 707.778.6060.

Barley & Hops Tavern Jun 13, Dave Hamilton. Jun 14, Earstu. Jun 15, Washington Hill. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental, 707.874.9037.

The Big Easy

Jun 12, Wednesday Night Big Band. Jun 13, Featprints.

Jun 14, Timothy O’Neil Band. Jun 15, Foxes in the Henhouse. Jun 16, Lindsay Clark. Jun 19, Rockville Roadkill Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

The Block

Jun 14, Brotherly Mud. Jun 15, the Hots. 20 Grey St, Petaluma, 707.775.6003.

Brewsters Beer Garden Jun 13, Rusty String Express.

Jun 14, Band of Friends. Jun 15, Dr Mojo. Jun 16, 1pm, Michael Capella Band. 229 Water St N, Petaluma, 707.981.8330.

Fern Bar

Jun 13, jazz night with Michael Price & Co. Jun 14, Shapeshifters. Jun 15, DJ Jahbaz. Jun 16, Steve Pile. Jun 17, Woodlander and friends.

Jun 18, Grace Evans. Jun 19, Organix. 6780 Depot St, Suite 120, Sebastopol, 707.861.9603.

Flamingo Lounge

Jun 14, Vinyl Tap. Jun 15, UB707.

2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, 707.545.8530.

Geyser Peak Winery

Jun 15, 12:30pm, the Unauthorized Rolling Stones. 2306 Magnolia Lane, Healdsburg, 707 857-2500.

Geyserville Gun Club Bar & Lounge Jun 15, Fly by Train. 21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville, 707.814.0036.

Guerneville Plaza

Jun 13, Poor Man’s Whiskey.

16201 First St, Guerneville, rockintheriver.org.

Hood Mansion Lawn

Jun 14, 5:30pm, Funky Fridays with the Blues Burners. 389 Casa Manana Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.833.6288. funkyfridays. info.

HopMonk Sebastopol Jun 15, 6pm, Mohawk Blade album-release show. Jun 17, DJ Beset. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

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Jun 14, Charles Henry Paul.

Jun 15, Dawn & Tony. Jun 16, 1pm, Smorgy. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

Hudson Street Wineries

Jun 14, 5pm, American Lore.

428 Hudson St, Healdsburg, 707.433.2364.

Cloverdale Performing Arts Center

Ives Park

Jun 15, celebration of world music with tenor Mete Tasin and soprano Ekin Ozdogan.

209 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, 707.829.2214.

Jun 19, 5pm, Peacetown concert series with Dr Loco & His Rockin Jalapeno Band. Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol, peacetown.org.

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Jun 14, Johnny Young. 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

Crooked Goat Brewing Jun 15, 3pm, Brandon Eardley.

Jun 16, 3pm, Timothy O’Neil.

120 Morris St, Ste 120, Sebastopol, 707.827.3893.

Elephant in the Room

Jun 14, John Courage Trio.

Jun 15, Matt Silva and Nick Otis. Jun 16, Sakoyana. Jun 18, Trouble in the Wind. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Jun 13, 5:30pm, the Ace of Cups. 3565 Standish Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.588.0707.

Lagunitas Amphitheaterette

Jun 18, Antibalas. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Jun 12, Freewheelers Cello Duo. Jun 13, Devine & Co and Rocking Round Robin. Jun 14, Rivertown Skifflers. Jun 15, B Sharp Blues Band. Jun 16,

Carbon City Lights. Jun 19, Levi Lloyd. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Jun 14, Susan Sutton Jazz Trio. Jun 15, Fargo Brothers.

Jun 16, Allways Elvis. Jun 18, Nate Lopez. 16280 Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.0501.

Montgomery Village Shopping Center Jun 15, 12pm, High Tide.

Jun 16, 12pm, Paperback Writer. 911 Village Court, Santa Rosa, 707.545.3844.

Murphy’s Irish Pub & Restaurant Jun 14, Wildflower Weed.

Jun 15, Sweet Burgundy.

464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Jun 14, David Luning with Jade Jackson. Jun 15, Luvplanet with the Grain and Awesome Hotcakes. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

Occidental Center for the Arts

Jun 15, Monica da Silva and Chad Alger. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707.874.9392.

Petaluma Historical Library & Museum Jun 16, 1pm, Schubertiade: An Afternoon of Schubert.

20 Fourth St, Petaluma, 707.778.4398.

The Phoenix Theater

Jun 14, Trebuchet with the Y Axes. Jun 15, Mike Sherm and Nef the Pharaoh.

201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

Jun 13, Saritah. Jun 14, the Bruthas. Jun 15, Twin Soles album-release show. Jun 16, 5pm, Gold Coast Jazz Band.

Jun 17, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

Reel & Brand

Jun 14, Take Off. Jun 15, Road Eleven. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

Remy’s Bar & Lounge

Jun 15, Rodney O and Sir Jinx.

130 Stony Point Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.578.1963.

Rio Nido Roadhouse

Jun 15, 2pm, Real Neato Music Festival with La Gente and John Courage. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido, 707.869.0821.

Sebastopol Library

Jun 15, 2pm, the Pine Needles.

7140 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol, 707.823.7691.

Jun 15, Vox Populi rock ’n’ roll choir. 574 First St East, Sonoma, 707.373.0700.

Sonoma-Cutrer

Jun 15, 1pm, Tsonoma.

4401 Slusser Rd, Windsor, 707.237.3489.

The Star

Jun 15, Echo Lens with Kowa and Zoe Winter. 6957 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.634.6390.

Starling Bar

Jun 13, Sean Carscadden Trio.

Jun 15, Oakland Crush. Jun 16, 2:30pm, Acrosonics. Jun 18, Blato Zlato. 19380 Hwy 12, Sonoma, 707.938.7442.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Jun 14, Bloomfield Bluegrass Boys. Jun 15, Used Goods. Jun 16, 4pm, the Real Sarahs. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

Whiskey Tip

Jun 13, Edgy Open Mic with Star Blue. Jun 14, the Precipice.

Jun 16, 12pm, Father’s Gay Queer Music Festival. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.843.5535.

NAPA Andaz Napa

Jun 15, John Vicino. Jun 19, Kyle Turner. 1450 First St, Napa, 707.687.1234.

Billco’s Billiards & Darts

Jun 13, Shelby Ann with Bourbon Therapy. 1234 Third St, Napa, 707.226.7506.

Blue Note Napa

Jun 12, Lowdown Brass Band.

Jun 13, Water Seed. Jun 18, Mix It Up pro jam. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Buster’s Southern Barbecue

Jun 16, 3pm, Rob Watson and friends featuring Vernon Black.

1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.5605.

Ca’ Momi Osteria

Jun 14, Dance for Pride with DJ Rotten Robbie. 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

CIA at Copia

Jun 14, Yuppie Liberation Front.

Jun 15, Dan Martin and the Noma Rocksteady Band. Jun 16, 12pm, Roem Baur. 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant Jun 14, Levi Lloyd & the 501 Band. 902 Main St, Napa, 707.258.2337.

Goose & Gander

Jun 16, 5pm, Big Sticky Mess.

1245 Spring St, St Helena, 707.967.8779.

JaM Cellars

Jun 13, Tommy Odetto.

1460 First St, Napa, 707.265.7577.

Lyman Park

Jun 13, 6pm, Dennis Johnson & the Mississippi Ramblers.

1498 Main St, St Helena, sthelena.com.

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Jun 13, 6:30pm, Calistoga concerts in the park with Maya. 1308 Cedar St, Calistoga, 707.942.2838.

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Jun 14, Dustin Saylor.

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The Saint

Jun 14, 5pm, Kevin Hauge.

Jun 15, JourneyDay Rhorer.

1351 Main St, St Helena, 707.302.5130.

Veterans Memorial Park

Jun 14, 6:30pm, Napa City Nights with Road Eleven and Guitarzilla. 850 Main St, Napa, napacitynights.com.

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Members of The Disco Biscuits Fri 6⁄14 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $19–22 • All Ages

Neon Velvet 80s glamour through today’s pop Sat 6⁄15 • Doors 11am ⁄ $17 • All Ages

The Music of Grateful Dead

Special Bluegrass Father's Day Celebration Sat 6⁄15 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $25–30 • All Ages The Garcia Project with

Museum of Sonoma County

Jun 16-Sep 15, “Grass Roots: Cannabis from Prohibition to Prescription,” discover the story of marijuana in Sonoma County. Reception, Jun 15 at 4pm.

425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa.

707.579.1500.

NAPA Stonehedge Winery

Ongoing, “Stonehedge & Haven Winery Art Show,” see new works from nature photographer Karen Stevenson Wright and multimedia artist and painter Susan Antonini.

Reception, Jun 15 at 5:30pm.

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Jun 16, 1pm, Little Feet, dancers of all ages and skills perform in a recital with live music accompaniment. $22.

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Jun 14, 8pm, Oceans Flamenco en Vivo, Seattle-based Flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes presents her latest work. $23-$35.

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Events Daniel Graham Studio Closing Sale After 13 years of working in Santa Rosa, the sculptor is moving to Mendocino and closing the studio with a weekend sale featuring works half-off. Jun 15-16.

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Celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States features live entertainment and a scholarship presentation.

Jun 15, 10am. Free. Martin Luther King Park, 1671 Hendley St, Santa Rosa, 707.543.3770.

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Stumptown Daze Parade

Floats, marching bands and live animals are all on hand for this annual community event. Jun 15, 11am.

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Field Trips Bird Courtship & Breeding Strategies

Take a bird walk with naturalist Lisa Hug. Pre-registration required. Jun 16, 8:30am. $55. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.527.9277.

Calming BodyMind Retreat

Full-day retreat includes selfhelp workshop, rejuvenating footbath, relaxing massage and lunch prepared by Fork Roadhouse. Jun 19, 9am. $249. Osmosis Day Spa, 209 Bohemian Hwy, Freestone, 707.823.8231.

Father’s Day Tour of Armstrong Redwoods

Easy two-mile walk on the forest floor visits several major points of interest. Advance registration recommended. Jun 16. $10; kis are free with adults.

Armstrong Volunteer Center, 17000 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, stewardscr.org.

Full Moon Hike

Bring a flashlight and sense of wonder to explore the park after dark in a moderate hike. Jun 16, 7pm. $10. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.5712.

Pilates with Perry

Work it out in a peaceful outdoor setting with Perry, coowner of Pilates Sonoma. Wed, 10am. $20. Quarryhill Botanical Gardens, 12841 Hwy 12, Glen Ellen, 707.996.3166.

Pond Farm Tour

Take a docent-led tour of Pond Farm Pottery and learn about the history of this significant cultural site. Jun 15, 9:30am. $20. Armstrong Volunteer Center, 17000 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, stewardscr.org.

Sounds of a Sugarloaf Summer Morning

Early morning hike will identify at least 10 bird species that make the park their summer home. Jun 16, 9am. $10.

Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood, 707.833.5712.

Film Cinema Bites

Enjoy bites created by St. Helena’s Archetype with Napa Valley wines, while watching the new doc “The Biggest Little Farm.” Jun 17, 4:45pm. $35.

Cameo Cinema, 1340 Main St, St Helena, 707.963.9779.

Movies to Dine For

Director Perry King is on hand for a screening of the modern western “The Divide” with barbecue dinner before the film. Jun 16, 4:45pm. $25.

Cameo Cinema, 1340 Main St, St Helena, 707.963.9779.

Underground 68

The 1960s counterculture rises again and shines a blazing light on today’s realities in the latest film from independent filmmaker Peter Coonradt. Jun 13, 6pm. $5-$10. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

Food & Drink Father’s Day ATV, Wine & Sliders

Take an ATV tour of the vineyards and indulge in chef-created bites and current release wines. Jun 16. $125. Hess Collection Winery, 4411 Redwood Rd, Napa, 707.255.1144.

Father’s Day Bottomless BBQ & Beers

Full barbecue menu, house beers and live music. Jun 16, 11am. $39 food; $10 beer. Tips Roadside, 8445 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood, 707.509.0078.

Father’s Day Grilling & Wines Discover the perfect wines for your summer cookouts and get stocked up. Jun 15-16, 11am. $25. Dutton-Goldfield Winery, 3100 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol, 707.827.3600.

Napa Valley Wine Train Murder Mystery Tour Speakeasy-themed theatrical experience aboard the train includes a multi-course gourmet dinner. Thurs, Jun 13, 5:30pm. $216. Napa Valley Wine Train, 1275 McKinstry St, Napa, 800.427.4124.

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Relax in a courtyard and enjoy live music, local food vendors and wine. Fri, Jun 14, 5pm. Free admission. Starmont Winery, 1451 Stanly Ln, Napa, 707 963 7777.

Taste of Howell Mountain

Indulge in world-class wines from 40-plus Howell Mountain wineries, with gourmet food pairings and auctions. Jun 15, 12pm. $150. Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St, St Helena, 707.967.3993.

Terroir to Glass

Hands-on cooking class and dinner features wines from Cornerstone Cellars. Jun 14, 7pm. $90. Vista Collina Resort, 850 Bordeaux Way, Napa, 888.965.7090.

For Kids Learn How to Draw Comic Books

Bilingual workshop for teens includes lessons on designing characters and showing action and emotion.

Space is limited. Jun 19, 3pm.

Northwest Regional Library, 150 Coddingtown Center, Santa Rosa, 707.546.2265.

Midsummer Musicamp

Napa Valley Music Associates host classes to help kids ages 4 to 12 develop singing and music fundamentals. Registration required. Jun 17-21. $250-$400.

Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center, 2277 Napa Vallejo Hwy, Napa, 707.322.8402.

Lectures Deconstructing the Beatles

Scott Freiman goes track by track on Side One of “Abbey Road.” Jun 18, 7pm. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol, 707.525.4840.

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workshop on writing wickedly good prose. Jun 15, 9:30am.

Flamingo Resort Hotel, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa, redwoodwriters.org.

Readings Center for Spiritual Living

Jun 14, 7pm, “The Bhagavad Gita” with Dr Edward Viljoen.

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Friends House

Jun 13, 7pm, Second Thursday Poetry Plus Event, includes readings and music. Free.

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Healdsburg Copperfield’s Books Jun 13, 6pm, “The Truffle Underground” with Ryan Jacobs. 104 Matheson St, Healdsburg 707.433.9270.

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Jun 15, 1pm, “Drive Through Napa” with Paul Hodgins.

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Petaluma Copperfield’s Books Jun 14, 7pm, “Velocity Weapon” with Megan O’Keefe.

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Readers’ Books

Jun 13, 6:30pm, “Ashes In a Coconut” with Bo Kearns.

Jun 18, 6:30pm, “The Great Connection” with Jim Cashel.

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Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books

Jun 13, 7pm, “Gold Digger” with Rebecca Rosenburg.

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Sebastopol Copperfield’s Books Jun 14, 7pm, “The State of Water” with Obi Kaufmann.

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Theater

Join KNBR sports commentator Marty Lurie and San Francisco Giants’ third-base coach Ron Wotus for a fireside chat Jun 13, 5:30pm. Free. Priest Ranch Tasting Room, 6490 Washington St, Yountville, 707.944.8200.

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Laugh-out-loud romantic comedy has been entertaining audiences for more than 200 years. Through Jun 23. $37$40. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.763.8920.

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Annual weekend tasting event involves all of Petaluma’s craft alcohol producers. Jun 15-16, 11am. Downtown Petaluma, petalumadrinks.com.

Broadway Under the Stars

Transcendence Theatre Company’s annual summer outdoor performance series takes on “A Chorus Line,” for its first full-length production. Jun 14-30. $49 and up. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, 707.938.5216.

Cabaret

Broadway musical takes place at the Kit Kat Club in 1931 Berlin. Through Jun 16. $30$40. Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa, 707.266.6305.

Drumming with Anubis

Left Edge Theatre presents the new play by David Templeton about a drunken Egyptian lord of the dead who crashes a campfire party. Through Jun 30. $25-$40. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Macbeth: The Witches’ Cut Curtain Call Theatre presents a new cut of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Through Jun 22. $15-$20. Russian River Hall, 20347 Hwy 116, Monte Rio, 707.524.8739.

Murder at Sea

Get a Clue Productions’ new mystery dinner theater show is a Caribbean cruise who-dunnit, with audience participation and island-themed attire encouraged. Sat, Jun 15, 7pm. $68. Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor, 707.837.0019.

West Side Story

The tale of “Romeo & Juliet” is set loose in epic fashion in this Broadway classic. Through Jul 7. $22-$35. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

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Astrology For the week of June 12

ARIES (March 21-April 19): We may not have to travel to other planets to find alien life. Instead of launching expensive missions to other planets, we could look for exotic creatures here on earth.

Astrobiologist Mary Beth Wilhelm is doing just that. Her search has taken her to Chile's Atacama Desert, whose terrain has resemblances to Mars. She's looking for organisms like those that might have once thrived on the Red Planet. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to use this idea as a metaphor for your own life. Consider the possibility that you've been looking far and wide for an answer or resource that is actually close at hand.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Philosopher Martin

Buber believed that some stories have the power to heal. That's why he said we should actively seek out stories that have the power to heal. Buber's disabled grandfather once told Buber a story about an adored teacher who loved to dance. As the grandfather told the story, he got so excited that he rose from his chair to imitate the teacher, and suddenly began to hop and dance around in the way his teacher did. From that time on, the grandfather was cured of his disability.

What I wish for you in the coming weeks is that you will find stories like that.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the 1960s, Gemini musician Brian Wilson began writing and recording bestselling songs with his band the Beach Boys. A seminal moment in his development happened while he was listening to his car radio in August 1963. A tune he had never heard before came on: "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes. Wilson was so excited he pulled over onto the shoulder of the road and stopped driving so he could devote his full attention to what he considered a shockingly beautiful work of art. "I started analyzing all the guitars, pianos, bass, drums, and percussion," he told *The New York Times*. "Once I got all those learned, I knew how to produce records." I suspect a pivotal moment like this could unfold for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. Be alert!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): My dear Cancerian, your soul is so rich and complicated, so manysplendored and mysterious, so fertile and generous.

I'm amazed you can hold all the poignant marvels you contain. Isn't it sometimes a struggle for you to avoid spilling over? Like a river at high tide during heavy rains? And yet every so often there come moments when you go blank; when your dense, luxuriant wonders go missing. That's OK! It's all part of the Great Mystery. You need these fallow phases. And I suspect that the present time might be such a time. If so, here's a fragment of a poem by Cecilia Woloch to temporarily use as your motto: "I have nothing to offer you now save my own wild emptiness.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): America's premier eventologist is Leo-born Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith.

When she was going through a hard time in 1991, she resolved to buoy her spirits by creating cheerful, splashy new holidays. Since then she has filled the calendar with over 1,900 new occasions to celebrate.

What a perfect way to express her radiant Leo energy! National Splurge Day on June 18 is one of Adrienne's favorites: a time for revelers to be extra kind and generous to themselves. That's a happy coincidence, because my analysis of the astrological omens suggests that this is a perfect activity for you to emphasize during the coming weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished." Virgo poet Mary Oliver made that statement. It was perfectly reasonable for her, given her occupation, although a similar declaration might sound outlandish coming from a non-poet. Nonetheless, I'll counsel you to inhabit that frame of mind at least part-time for the next two weeks. I think you'll benefit in numerous ways from ingesting more than your minimum daily dose of beauty, wonder, enchantment, and astonishment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran philosopher Michel Foucault articulated a unique definition of "criticism." He said that it doesn't dish out judgments or hand down sentences. Rather, it invigorates things by encouraging them, by identifying dormant potentials and hidden beauty. Paraphrasing and quoting Foucault, I'll tell you that this alternate type of criticism ignites

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useful fires and sings to the grass as it grows. It looks for the lightning of possible storms, and coaxes codes from the sea foam. I hope you'll practice this kind of "criticism" in the coming weeks, Libra—a criticism that doesn't squelch enthusiasm and punish mistakes, but instead champions the life spirit and helps it ripen.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Help may be

hovering nearby, but in an unrecognizable guise.

Rumpled but rich opportunities will appear at the peripheries, though you may not immediately recognize their value. A mess that you might prefer to avoid looking at could be harboring a very healthy kind of trouble. My advice to you, therefore, is to drop your expectations. Be receptive to possibilities that have not been on your radar. Be willing to learn lessons you have neglected or disdained in the past.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As much

as I love logic and champion rational thinking, I'm granting you a temporary exemption from their supremacy. To understand what's transpiring in the coming weeks, and to respond with intelligence, you will have to transcend logic and reason. They will simply not be sufficient guides as you wrestle and dance with the Great Riddle that will be visiting. You will need to unleash the full power of your intuition.

You must harness the wisdom of your body, and the information it reveals to you via physical sensations.

You will benefit from remembering at least some of your nightly dreams, and inviting them to play on your consciousness throughout the day.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): For the sake of your emotional and spiritual health, you may need to temporarily withdraw or retreat from one or more of your alliances. But I recommend that you don't do anything drastic or dramatic. Refrain from harsh words and sudden breaks. For now, seal yourself away from influences that are stirring up confusion so you can concentrate on reconnecting with your own deepest truths. Once you've done that for a while, you'll be primed to find helpful clues about where to go next in managing your alliances.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I've got a list of do's and don't's for you. Do play and have fun more than usual. But don't indulge in naïve assumptions and infantile emotions that interfere with your ability to see the world as it really is. Do take aggressive action to heal any sense of abandonment you're still carrying from the old days. But don't poison yourself with feelings of blame toward the people who abandoned you. Do unleash wild flights of fantasy and marvelous speculations about seemingly impossible futures that maybe aren't so impossible. But don't get so fixated on wild fantasies and marvelous speculations that you neglect to embrace the subtle joys that are actually available to you right now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "At times, so

many memories trample my heart that it becomes impossible to know just what I'm feeling and why," writes Piscean poet Mark Nepo. While that experience is familiar to everyone, it's especially common for you Pisceans. That's the bad news. But here's the good news: in the coming weeks, your heart is unlikely to be trampled by your memories. Hence, you will have an excellent chance to know exactly what you're feeling and why. The weight of the past will at least partially dissolve and you'll be freer than usual to understand what's true for you right now, without having to sort through confusing signals about who you used to be.

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